by Vanessa Johnson on Thursday, December 13, 2018

For Spaniards, as well as for other folks around the globe, the holidays are a time to celebrate with the family. Special dinners with a lot of guests around the table, seasonal songs, and long soirées become the perfect plan for many…
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by Vanessa Johnson on Monday, December 10, 2018

If someone has ever told you that you estás de toma pan y moja (to take bread and dip), congratulations! That is actually a compliment. Another version of the same saying is estás para mojar pan …
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by Vanessa Johnson on Thursday, November 22, 2018

by Redacción don Quijote on Thursday, October 11, 2018

Christopher Columbus arrived to the Americas for the first time on October 12, 1492 . The historic event marks an important change in the course of the history of the Western world, as it lead to permanent contact between Europe and the Americas. The day is officially observed in a variety of ways and called a variety of names in much of Latin America, the US and Spain. …
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by Vanessa Johnson on Monday, October 08, 2018

by Vanessa Johnson on Thursday, October 04, 2018

Beginning in the late 1700s, a mixture of historical events and intellectual currents lay the groundwork for a push for independence from Spain in the different corners of Latin America. The revolutions in France and the United States and the ideas of the Enlightenment, Spain’s declining international power, and the resentment harbored by the criollos (people of Spanish descent born in the Americas) against the privileges enjoyed by the peninsulares (people born in Spain living in the Americas) all factored into a tumultuous atmosphere in the Spanish colonies. This was fuel for the fire that was finally sparked in 1808 with Napoleon’s invasion of Spain and the dethroning of Spanish King Ferdinand VII…
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